Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
It has been a long, long time since Krystian Zimerman’s last solo recording. Think back to his Gramophone Award-winning Debussy...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
Here is the first recording ever made of all Rachmaninov’s Preludes. Recorded for Decca between May 1941 and August 1942,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017
French music is indispensable to any pianist’s training. Nearly all professionals maintain, at the very least, a few ‘speciality’ pieces in...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017
Think for a moment of a pianist equally at home with the French clavecinistes, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Scriabin,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017
Quick question: how many composers does it take to create a song-cycle? In the case of ‘Cloud River Mountain’, the answer is...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17
Boyd Meets Girl comprises the Australian guitarist Rupert Boyd and the American cellist Laura Metcalf. A self-labelled ‘happily married couple’,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17
The 19th pipe organ built by Martin Paso and Associates and housed in Houston’s relatively new Co‑Cathedral of the Sacred...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Vincent Persichetti (1915‑87) composed 10 sonatas in all for the harpsichord, nine in the final six years of his life. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17
Aside from Kodaly’s Duo for violin and cello, Mozart’s two duos for violin and viola and the ubiquitous Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW17
The American composer Dominic Dousa shares something with another countryman, Ferde Grofé: both are/were smitten with the great expanses and...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW17
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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